mjzee

I have a different perspective, since I worked at J&R (a competitor, though we came first in NYC) for many years. Tower’s prices were much higher than ours. I also thought our selection was better, and our cutout selection was much better. The one area they excelled in was Japanese imports, because they could bring in stock from their Japan operation.

Great idea for a topic. Although I’m away from my collection right now, off the top of my head: 1) Sonny Clark. Perhaps the greatest contributor to the BN style. 2) Billy Higgins. He did his greatest work for BN. 3) Donald Byrd. Great contributions as a sideman, for Mobley and others.

My two cents: we bought an Asus 2-in-1 (tablet/Windows laptop) for my son, and the screen got cracked. We had a Square Trade warranty. They replaced the screen but did a really unartful job - it looked like they shaved off the edges of the old screen in order to remove it, so you still see the shaved edges. Worse, the installation wasn’t done well: the screen is now upside-down when docked, so it still works as a tablet but not so much as a laptop. The thing to remember is that Square Trade technicians are not the original manufacturer’s techs - they’re just some third party. You have no way of knowing in advance the expertise of your technician - there’s no word-of-mouth that you can rely on. And I imagine their business model is such that they will replace your unit only as an absolute last resort.

Fascinating stuff. Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy 2? In the beginning, there's a scene with Jeff Bridges as a 20-something, probably using this technology, and it looks so real. But what the article's describing is just the next step after Photoshopping (which, in and of itself, should make you question any photograph you see). We just have to continue questioning everything and being skeptical. Anyway, I still think Hollywood's end game is to make computer-generated animation look so real that they'll eventually replace actors.

I will try to attend this. Burton Greene played on her first album!

It’s especially ironic considering the current crop of radicals owe their existence to being able to talk on college campuses in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. As a provocateur, Milo has nothing on Abbie Hoffman. But now that the radicals are in power, they gleefully jettison the First Amendment. Power for me but not for thee, y’see.

Seems to me the writer (and you) are trying to smear Hoff Summers by association. Surely you'll concede that she has the right to speak, unmolested, when invited on college campuses?

276 Clean Feed titles. 213 Audiophile titles. 292 Jazzology titles. 72 Posi-Tone titles. 48 Anzic titles. 123 HiFi titles.

I remember that UA pressings were pretty noisy, so try to hear it before you buy. The RVG CDs sound great. Don't forget this relatively recent 10" LP for additional alternates: One more item to consider. This is a more recent release than the RVGs, with masterings instead by Bernie Grundman. There's some discussion in the Amazon reviews about the tonal differences between this and the RVGs. And just to complicate your buying decision further, there is also a Blu-Ray version.

Kelly and Konitz riffing on 317 E. 32. Not too shabby:

204 Intuition titles - Jon Hassell, Oregon, Dave Liebmann, Miroslav Virtuos, Martial Solal, Enrico Pieranunzi, Don Cherry, Fred Frith, Dave Holland, Joey Baron, Denny Zeitlin...

It's newspeak. You remember 1984.

Have you heard any samples? Those Documents boxes, in my experience, tend to be heavily no-noised.

Yeppers. So watch out for people who say "Well, I think it's OK, but some other people might object to your saying X." First, let's wait until some real live in-the-flesh people actually complain. Then, let's protect our first amendment rights and laugh them out of here.

43 Capri titles - Scott Hamilton, Walt Weiskopf, Charles McPherson, Joshua Breakstone, Jeff Hamilton, and THIS:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/we-all-live-on-campus-now.html

I bought mine in 2010. If you like that era Blue Note, it seems essential. Just look at the players! Some of my favorite dates in the box were in the vaults for many years, and first appeared on this twofer:

I guess what bothers me is the assumption that "new" is, every time and in all cases, "good." New can be bad. We have to listen to the music and make our own determinations. We do that on a consumer level and on an aesthetic level. A true listener of atonal music will discriminate between musicians he likes and those he doesn't, concepts he likes and those he doesn't. If he likes everything, he could just as easily get his listening pleasure at construction sites. I don't see what the problem is with listening to a piece of music, any piece of music, and saying "I like that" or "I don't like it." Not every record released is a masterpiece. Not every live performance is brilliance. Even good performers have their bad days. Why can't we state this? Because it's a buzz-killer? C'est la vie.

It's not a problem at all. It sounds like that's what the original poster (mrjazzman) was doing with the Jacknife performance he saw. Can we be satisfied that he undertook the challenge and came to his conclusion?

Something can be "new" and still be contentless/derivative/grating/meandering. Music needs to be judged on its own terms. Does the avant garde claim exemption from opinions, or must all opinions of the avant garde be positive? (This is not meant as a comment about Jacknife, whom I haven't heard. But then, I didn't like this period of Jackie's music either. It's some 50 years on since his Moncur period - at what point does it cease to be new?)

OK. I used to live in Stamford, and bought some things at their old address...assumed from (faulty) memory that it was 425 Fairfield Ave. Their old address was a small building in the industrial side of Stamford, and it looked to me like it was their building (sign on the door, you walk into a receptionist area, receptionist was very nice...sigh, those were the days). I remember looking to the left and seeing a bookcase with discographies, probably used in their research.

I'm surprised they still have the Stamford building. I'd have thought they'd have sold it when they outsourced the warehouse and shipping functions.

Listening now to Dick's Picks 27 (12/16/92), and really enjoying it.

bluenotesound has a bunch of titles on Ebay now. So does a seller named jackie_martling.